Brian Franco retweeted
President Trump and @SecKennedy bonded over the mutual desire to get BIG things done against the dark, pernicious, corrupt forces of the status quo in DC.
And that is happening.
If someone can’t admit that the past two have seen unprecedented positive cultural and policy momentum to improve our food system and address the root cause of disease, they have a cognitive impairment where their brains are not able to separate political bias from reality.
And this momentum is showing incredible results. This admin has overseen:
✅the largest growth in U.S. life expectancy ever.
✅the first decline in obesity in modern history.
✅an 8% increase in real food purchases.
✅ ultraprocessed company stocks underperforming the S&P by 60% because Americans are buying less of it.
Brian Franco retweeted
They’re literally using a child as a human shield to move weapons.
I find it interesting that the same people who “care so much” about civilian life being lost due to the conflict in Gaza are quiet when terrorists use children as human shields..
Brian Franco retweeted
Fixed it for you.
Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
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Brian Franco retweeted
Ah yes fine that man for drinking an invisible beverage while we take a commercial break for Bud Light, DraftKings, and Polymarket
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NFL fined 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk $14,926 for engaging in an offensive demonstration Sunday vs. Miami. “Your imitation of chugging a beer constituted an offensive demonstration and could reasonably be construed as being in poor taste,” the NFL wrote in its fine letter. Juszczyk, nicknamed “Juice”, already has appealed the fine.
Brian Franco retweeted
If Israel really wanted to cause a Genocide in Gaza, they could have done it in 2 hours. Instead, they painstakingly did MORE to avoid civilian casualties than ANY country in ANY War ever has done.
WOW: @BillMaher utterly DESTROYS the “Gaza genocide” narrative.
Yep—it’s TikTok propaganda.
And the corrosive effect of this lie is not a meme or a joke—it’s real catastrophe in OUR society.
Everyone drunk on anti-Israel slop needs to hear this👇🏼
Brian Franco retweeted
I don’t think people really understand the true dominance of @UConnWBB and @UConnMBB in college basketball over the last 30 years. It’s really quite staggering.
We are proud to present our 2026 UConn Athletics Annual Report.
This provides a review of another extraordinary year, detailing our latest points of pride, budgetary data, fan engagement statistics and ongoing facilities growth.
View the report here: uconnhuskies.com/2026annualr…
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Mandami and AOC sharing a good laugh while the names of 9/11 victims are read is quite the visual
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I want a full tax refund for the last 25 years
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JUST IN: U.S. Treasury uncovers $17,500,000,000.00 in suspected fraudulent health care activity.
Brian Franco retweeted
Apparently we’ve struck a nerve with Gov. Lamont. Now he’s outright lying about his record on data centers.
Lamont gave them decades of exemptions from property taxes, as well as sales and use taxes while YOU pay more in property taxes to subsidize them.
In Windsor, a data center avoided nearly $20 MILLION in taxes to create just 5 jobs.
Don’t take my word for it. Read about it here: governing.com/finance/connec…
Brian Franco retweeted
Convo with a friend, one of the few leftist friends from my theatre days I have left:
Her: I hope you're happy.
Me: About?
Her: Trump is trying to block mail-in voting.
Me: No, he's not.
Her: I know; you only believe Trump.
Me: What? No.
Her: So admit it. He's trying to block mail-in voting.
Me: He's not. He's just trying to make sure the people getting the ballots are the people who SHOULD be getting them and then returning them. That's it.
Her: What do you mean?
Me: I mean they're just trying to put a barcode on the outside of the envelope so nobody gets taken advantage of and people get their ballots securely in the mail.
Her: I don't believe you.
Me: Where did you hear he's blocking mail-in voting?
Her: ...
Me: Ok. Let me send you the details, and you can decide for yourself what he's really trying to do.
Her: Fine. Whatever.
-- 15 minutes after I sent it --
Her: Why wouldn't people want the barcode on the outside of the envelope?
Have those talks with friends who disagree with you, even if they're maddening sometimes. It can be worth it.
Brian Franco retweeted
Miss Governor,
Women in Iran and across Muslim communities get beaten and murdered for refusing the hijab. I was kicked out of school, multiple times, for "improper hijab." That was my life.
So am I an Islamophobe for saying "fuck you" when you cosplay as a champion of women’s rights while wrapping yourself in the same symbol that was used to police, punish, and erase me and millions of women around the world just to court Muslim votes?
No. I’m not.
FUCK YOU.
@GovKathyHochul
Brian Franco retweeted
Dear Zohran,
This is why people don’t want you at the memorial.
Those people on 9/11 didn’t just “die.” They were murdered. Murdered by radical Islamists who committed an act of terrorism. Terrorism that you refuse to condemn. Terrorism where you’ve unapologetically stood with people who said these people deserved it.
Instead, you’ve made this event about your made up aunt. Instead, you and the rest of your DSA comrades have done everything in your power to shift the blame away from radical Islam. You acknowledge people died, but you won’t say why they died. Instead it’s “some people did something.”
You, and everyone who voted for you, disgust me. New York has forgotten. Shame.
Zeek
Brian Franco retweeted
When Detectives Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were killed, and Bill de Blasio invited himself to their funerals, I was proud to be one of the cops there who turned our backs on him.
It’s the most epic of silent protests I can imagine. I’d do it again.
For someone who campaigned with and embraced people who have said America deserved 9/11, for someone who shows more empathy towards criminals than cops and law-abiding citizens, for someone whose wife knowingly and openly supports terrorism, and for someone whose wife knowingly doesn’t respect us or our way of life, I simply want to remind the 9/11 families that you have the option and right to turn your back on Zohran Mamdani. Since he believes in protest so much, go ahead and make him the subject of one.
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This is INSANE
CT Democrat Senator Chris Murphy says that illegal aliens putting American lives at risk is a "fake problem"
Literally last month, an illegal alien in HIS OWN STATE killed a CT police officer and his girlfriend while driving drunk.
This is fake @ChrisMurphyCT??
Brian Franco retweeted
Governor Shapiro's unseemly rush to Lancaster County to convene a national press conference and his giddy delight in announcing two measles deaths was a morose commentary on the contemporary political dialogue. The performance was a replay of the Democrats' COVID playbook: fearmongering, misinformation, finger-pointing, and the weaponization of infectious disease fears for political gain.
The announcement appears to have been premature, and the deaths may even have been altogether fabricated by one of the Governor's hopeful staffers. The Lancaster County Coroner says that it has no record of any measles deaths. State law requires that all measles deaths be reported to the coroner.
Governor Shapiro shattered tradition and violated standard public health policy by refusing to share information with the County Health Department or CDC.
Since I have been in office, CDC has had a superb record of cooperation, information sharing, and professionalism with blue- and red-state governors and health officials. Those collaborations have resulted in effective control of the global measles outbreak in this country.
Governor Shapiro got his headlines. He correctly gambled that the slavish mainstream media would dutifully amplify his scolding without any effort to check his facts.
Measles questions.
Let’s be clear- when the Governor comes into our county and holds a press conference with PA Department of Health and Penn Medicine Lancaster general Health and states there were two “measles-associated deaths” here, with the underlying assertion that the two people died FROM measles, and they are the first deaths from measles in 35 years, and that announcement sets off numerous media reports uncritically repeating that two people died FROM measles in Lancaster County, and Lancaster County elected officials then get questions about this – it is totally fair for me to ask for relevant information on those deaths.
Asking questions is not “pro-measles.”
Asking for information that should have been provided at the press conference is not “anti-science.”
It is simply wanting the whole story for my constituents.
When officials who hold a big press conference and make big headlines – those officials owe us more than the headlines. They owe us the whole truth. They owe us accurate information by which the people of Lancaster County can make decisions about their health and safety.
It has been about 24 hours since the press conference. We do not have any answers. Of course journalists should also be asking these questions rather than uncritically repeating something.
Any deaths from measles are required by law to be reported to the Lancaster County Coroner’s Office. I have spoken at length with both a senior staff member from that office and the Coroner himself. They currently have zero measles deaths in Lancaster County. They have one death of a person who died WITH measles, but not from measles. We do not know if the state is counting that one. Nor do we know anything about the other death that officials reported yesterday.
Is there an unlikely scenario where a patient from here got measles and sought care outside of Lancaster County and died there and it was reported to another county coroner? Yes. I am open to that or other unlikely possibilities. But if one of these unlikely scenarios is the case, the people holding the press conference had, and currently have, a responsibility to provide that information.
The law DOES allow release of more information. Demographic information that does not identify the patient may be released.
I reached out to Penn Medicine LGH. No response.
I reached out the Governor’s office. No response.
I talked with our Lancaster County Department of Public Safety Director. He has no additional information from the state.
I asked questions this morning at our Board of Commissioners meeting of Commissioner Alice Yoder who was at the press conference yesterday and is a former official at Penn Medicine LGH. She did not have any answers. (This exchange is on video and will be available later today.)
So as of right now, we have ZERO information that corroborates the idea that there were two measles deaths in Lancaster County. Again, everything stated could be accurate. But no one in authority has been able to say that, nor have they even tried to say it.
To me it is a big deal if the Governor comes in and gives a press conference and then no one can or will identify simple details around what was stated and what then generated major news stories.
Transparency is owed to the people.
It is incumbent on those who held the press conference to clear this up.
Immediately.
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Here’s what we know so far about the two deaths in Lancaster, Pennsylvania that are widely being called “measles deaths:”
1. Governor Shapiro announced, “the first two measles-associated deaths in Pennsylvania in 35 years.”* This phrasing is important. He did not say “measles deaths” or “deaths from measles” which means the facts do not allow him to say that. And just as people can die with Covid, as opposed to from Covid, people can die with measles, as opposed to from measles.
2. While claiming that, “protecting the confidentiality of residents is a core responsibility of the Department of Health” and thus, “out of respect for their privacy, [the DOH] will not be releasing additional personal details,” as they’re “protecting people’s privacy and confidentiality,” they had no issue disclosing that the two individuals were supposedly unvaccinated which is, in fact, a medical and personal detail.
3. According to the County Commissioner, Joshua Parsons, as of August 25, 2026, “The Coroner’s office indicates that it currently has ZERO reported cases where measles is the immediate cause of death.”**
4. Most critically, if these two had died of measles, the Pennsylvania Governor and health department would no doubt have been blasting out that claim, instead of saying “measles-associated deaths” and “residents with measles have died.”
5. While jumping at any chance to hopefully pin a death on a disease for which there is a vaccine, these same officials don’t give a hoot about the children and adults across this country that are killed, injured, or left with a chronic disease from their worshipped vaccine products, no matter the number. The daily unrelenting flow of those contacting our firm about deaths and devastating injuries from vaccines are irrelevant to them. A maybe case, just hopeful case, that measles may have caused a death, that is all they care about even when all the facts are not in yet.
6. Ironically, Governor Shapiro preached that: “There’s real life consequences to spreading misinformation. There’s real life consequences to scaring people and not relying on actual doctors and actual medical professionals to provide unbiased information to parents…Sharing…misinformation does not help the cause of public health.” Yet, I have not seen the Governor or the Pennsylvania DOH correcting any of the media that is spreading misinformation, scaring people, and not relying on unbiased information in their reporting of these deaths as being “measles deaths” or “from measles.” These outlets include The New York Times, Reuters, The Guardian, USA Today, ABC News, Wall Street Journal, and many more.***
7. Governor Shapiro also identified another serious problem: “Measles has been so rare for so long that many doctors don’t know a lot about it” and explains that their DOH has had to “work[] to inform physicians of the symptoms so they can tell the difference between the rash that appears from measles and perhaps some other rash.” When vaccination becomes the sole answer, the quality of healthcare declines.
8. Perhaps the most important thing that Governor Shapiro said is something that everyone needs to remember and respect: “Parents absolutely have the right to make their own decisions on how to best protect their kids.”
Sources:
*youtube.com/watch?v=6hYU4TFx…
**xitter.cf/CommissionerJP/status/…
*** The New York Times: “Two Unvaccinated People Died From Measles in Pennsylvania, Officials Say” — uses “died from measles” and “measles deaths.”
nytimes.com/2026/08/25/well/…
Reuters: “Pennsylvania reports first U.S. measles deaths this year as outbreak grows” — uses “died from measles” and “measles deaths” / “measles fatalities.”
reuters.com/business/healthc…
The Guardian: “Two unvaccinated people die of measles in Pennsylvania” — uses “die of measles” / “died of measles” and “died from measles.”
theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
USA Today: “Two dead of measles in Pennsylvania, the first in US this year” — uses “died of measles” / “dead of measles” and “measles deaths.”
usatoday.com/story/news/heal…
ABC News: “2 people die from measles in Pennsylvania, marking state's first deaths in 35 years” — uses “die from measles” / “died … from measles.”
abcnews.com/Health/2-people-…
Wall Street Journal (headline and body mix): “Pennsylvania Reports First Measles Deaths of 2026” — headline uses “Measles Deaths”; body includes “died after contracting measles” (borderline but often grouped with direct phrasing in coverage).
wsj.com/health/pennsylvania-…
Important information about the measles press conference today: Today Governor Shapiro, members of Penn Medicine LGH, and members of the PA Department of Health (DOH) held a press conference announcing two “measles-associated deaths” in Lancaster County.
Officials provided virtually no background information about these “measles-associated” deaths. DOH said to “protect the privacy of the individuals and their families, DOH will not release any additional details that could personally identify these individuals and their families,” however, they did release the medical information that the two were unvaccinated.
Thus, they did not release age, background, or comorbidity information, but did release vaccination information.
It is important to know whether these two people died OF measles or WITH measles.
Given this is important information for us to have, and that the public and media have many questions about this, I reached out to the Lancaster County Coroner’s Office for information.
Deaths attributed to a communicable disease, under the law, are required to be reported to the Coroner’s office.
The Coroner’s office indicates that it currently has ZERO reported cases where measles is the immediate cause of death.
They have one case where a person died WITH measles, but not FROM measles. Measles was definitely NOT the cause of death in that case.
Given this information, it appears at least on the surface that incorrect information was provided to the public today. That information set off significant media interest in Lancaster County, both locally and nationally.
Perhaps there is an explanation, but it is incumbent on the individuals and organizations that had the press conference today to provide that information to the public in a timely and accurate way.
Brian Franco retweeted
Rowling says:
Dress how you want.
Love who you want.
Call yourself whatever name you want.
Engage in sexual activity with whatever consenting adult will have you.
But stay out of women’s restrooms and rape shelters and don’t expect me to call a man “she”.
That’s it. And 85% or more of the human population agrees with this.
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Two years ago today, President Trump and I promised we would Make America Healthy Again.
Now, just 19 months into the Trump administration, HHS has delivered the most sweeping public health reforms in modern history.
See Big Wins here:
hhs.gov/promisesmade-promise…
Brian Franco retweeted
The media hates you.
Reminder that:
➡️0 Americans have died of measles this year. 300/year before the invention of vaccine.
➡️1,000,000 preventable deaths will occur this year from chronic disease, RFK’s focus.
➡️Real food purchases increased this year
at a record rate. Americans are buying less ultraprocessed food.
➡️The FDA is on track for less food recalls than any point in last 10 years.
➡️Obesity is declining for the first time in modern history.



































